Word: popes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed and sent to conference the Pope-McGill Farm Bill...
John Nance Garner looked down from his rostrum, his keen eyes seeing everything taking place on the Senate floor. Deliberately blind to half-a-dozen Senators on their feet clamoring to be heard, he put an end to four weeks of haggling, took a final roll call on the Pope-McGill Farm Bill. It was passed 59-to-29. His act was a defiance of the sacred tradition of free speech in the Senate, and an eminently sensible thing to do because 1) the bill was going to be passed anyhow, 2) its form was immaterial...
...market: and compulsory control-levying penalties on excess production. Secretary Wallace observed in his annual report last month that although voluntary methods were preferable, compulsory methods should be invoked when crop reserves on hand grew too large. So Ed O'Neal and his Federation helped draft the Pope-McGill Bill accepting the compulsory principle wholeheartedly, setting permissible crop reserves at the low levels they considered necessary to maintain prices...
...vestments resembling a bishop's and a mitre bearing cabalistic words, with one of his tonsured "monks" by his side. He held services for his people, giving them "the sacraments," for, as his housekeeper explained, "we are really a Roman Catholic church although we are not under the Pope." But when the press began getting too inquisitive, "Padre" Abbate secreted himself, had a sign put on the door: For Members Only...
...Pope Pius XI once referred to God as the "Principal Newsmaker," but few churchmen conceive of the Deity as a Great Editor. In England, however, a number of members of the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman last summer enlisted God's aid in a journalistic venture. In their "quiet times" every morning they took pencil & paper, jotted down what they believed to be divine instructions on problems of makeup, caption-writing and layout for a one-shot picture magazine to be called Rising Tide. The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies...